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Art Education

Joseph Beuys, teaching at the Kunstakademie, Düsseldorf, 1967

Artists

> 5 years ago

Eight art schools that changed the world

From the influential Bauhaus to contemporary Cuba, centres for studying art have shaped global culture over the past century. Sam Thorne celebrates the most innovative examples.
The new Bauhaus Museum Weimar

Artists

> 5 years ago

Travel: on the Bauhaus trail, from Weimar to Berlin

To mark 100 years of the legendary art school, Sam Phillips follows its fortunes from Weimar, via Dessau, to the German capital.
Paul Brandford oversees a life-drawing workshop at Greenwich’s Eltham Hill School, with life model Anna Bird

Inside the Academy

< 6 years ago

Art under threat: why teaching’s in decline in our schools

Amy Sherlock addresses the slump in art teaching in Britain’s schools, and the effect this has on the art education ecosystem.

Students at work in the Royal Academy Schools, January 2019

Artists

< 6 years ago

Art under threat: the growing crisis in higher education

Britain’s reputation as a creative country is at risk, as threats mount to the education pathway that leads potential artists from school to university to professional life. Sam Phillips reports on the political challenges facing higher education.